Sentences with phrase «with afro»

Meanwhile, Wandering Studio mixes a Sienese landscape with an Afro - topped, one - legged figure smoking a hookah onstage who gazes through a hallucinatory window that's a painting within the painting - an apt metaphor for the comedic, theatrical scenes that Mosley conjures up.

In this vein, he began to draw large fields of color across his canvases with Afro combs, squeegees, and homemade rakes to create what he called «Energy Fields».

As a French - Algerian artist I came to this American city with my own perspective, but I do have some commonality with Afro - American history.

He experimented with an Afro comb, then a 12 - foot - long brush of his own devising, and he separated pigment from acrylic medium, in one series scattering pigment over paper covered in clear acrylic.

Though Puerto Rican artist Rafael Ferrer was primarily involved with Afro - Cuban music as a drummer growing up between Puerto Rico and New York, he became known in the late 1960s for conceptual and processed based installations.

This new body of work, which features three - dimensional collages as well as a debut series of sculptures in collaboration with the Afro Brazilian design firm Vosay, hones in on various forms of agency through the lens of authorship and authenticity.

«Cosmologies of Black Cultural Production: A Conversation with Afro - Surrealist Filmmaker Christopher Harris» was published in the summer 2016 issue of Film Quarterly.

In 1973, Adrian Piper presented a persona called Mythic Being; it was sort of a drag alter ego (a Black man with Afro hear, mustaches and sunglasses) which was represented both in performances and other media.

Her work weaves elements of East African mythology, as seen in the nguva, with Afro - surrealist elements of science fiction and fantasy, critiques of African and female stereotypes, and universal notions of power, race, and colonialism.

In one vignette, a woman with an afro is gleefully braiding a blonde woman's hair.

For Mythic Being, 1973 - 75, the artist marched through the streets of New York City dressed as a man, complete with Afro and bushy mustache, bellowing out passages from her own journals.

Inspired by soundtracks, Pinder utilizes hypnotic popular music and surreal performances to underscore themes dealing with Afro - Futurism, physical endurance, and blackness.

Stringing together small abstracted heads with Afro hairdos, Ofili ultimately clusters them into an undifferentiated black block at the right side of the page.

As an adult she's had the pleasure of touring the world with an Afro - funk band called Soulfège.

It follows the story from the beginning, and one of the main characters is a singing skellington with an afro.

The legend of Afro Samurai continues with Afro Samurai 2: The Revenge of Kuma, Volume 1 launching today on Steam and PS4 (the highly - anticipated sequel will be available on Xbox One early next month).

With Afro Samurai creator Takeshi Okazaki the game is a mix of homage from a number of games.

With Afro Samurai creator Takeshi Okazaki the game is a mix of hom...

The Kuka Restaurant with its afro - chic mood is set in a modern open space and decorated in bright vibrant colors.

I didn't bring my DSLR, I hardly recorded any video footage, and I didn't wear makeup or even wrestle with my afro.

Botany Bay Lodge offers friendly, relaxed accommodation with an afro - colonial setting, situated right next to the famous Botanical Gardens on Durban's lush suburb - the Berea - not far from shopping centres, cinemas...

Instead I decided to make a quick detour, and found myself in possession of a big smile, as a mixed race guy with an afro, who had finally boarded the 7.30 train to Frankfurt.

Who knows what this other mixed race guy with an afro was like, or why he was going to Frankfurt, or where he came from.

Spend time with an Afro - Brazilian community outside of Parati, and opt to cruise to nearby islands.

In California, Thousands of Teachers Missing Needed Credentials The last time Charlie Parker took a social studies class, he was a teenager with an Afro and Jimmy Carter was president of the United States.

California Watch The last time Charlie Parker took a social studies class, he was a teenager with an Afro and Jimmy Carter was president of the United States.

Combining supersonic speed rhythm with Afro - beat percussion and lushly mysterious strings, «Bourne» was more music for a whirling dervish dancer than a murder - programmed spy, a fusion of alternative club stylings with solidly symphonic tradition, graced with a memorable theme to tie its kinetic energy together.

Permanent (PG - 13 for profanity, crude humor, sexual references and mature themes) Coming - of - age comedy, set in the South in 1982, revolving around a white «tweener (Kira McLean), new to a town, who ends up ostracized at school after her hairdresser accidentally leaves her with an afro instead of curls like her idol, Farah Fawcett.

Viola Davis, the «little black girl with the afro» took a movie beyond $ 100 mil.

My biggest problem with Afro Samurai is that it feels like everything needs to be just a little bit tighter for this to be one of the greats.

Every time I enter focus mode, I either notice something new about it or figure out new ways to fiddle around with Afro's swordplay.

Don't like them FAKES I'm the guy with the Afro, I love hair tho:) Studying in India currently, doing my Diploma Masters (Architecture) and after that I'll extend my studies further.

It works beautifully... even with my Afro - Caribbean light mocha complexion, the powder blends and sets perfectly... flawless!

Nov. 17's evening is a Bomba Dance Party featuring La Escuelita Bombera de Corazón, with Afro - Boricua star Ivelisse Díaz.

The concept is presented in Walker's In Search of Our Mother's Gardens, and many women in church and society have appropriated it as a way of affirming themselves as black while simultaneously owning their connection with feminism and with the Afro - American community, male and female.

Selznick simply isn't that good of a screenwriter, constantly having his characters write something down, show it to the screen and then say it out loud in a maddening dollop of redundancy, and Haynes often gives those sequences a bizarre 70's exploitation feel with afros aplenty and a glaringly terrible funk soundtrack that makes you pine for the silent era all the more.

Tiny magazine cut - outs of people with Afros, their heads and faces only, are sprinkled throughout «She» and «Afrodizzia.»

A magnificent creation, it is built up in layers with bright, often iridescent painted whorls containing the cut - out heads of men with Afros, the surface dotted with dung - balls labelled with map pins spelling the names of eminent black sportsmen, and the whole thing spun into a psychedelic dazzle.

The women, often with afros, high heels and low necklines, pose languidly, enjoying their sexuality.

Not exact matches

I am glad to see that people are finally beginning to compare the struggle that Blacks (Afro - Americans) in this country have experienced in the past, with the struggle that gays are still experiencing in this country.

That inferiority has become more pronounced over time, as the number of musicians with the basic Afro - Americana chops has decreased.

Those latter steps require attention not just to Bayles, and what she learned (with help from Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison) about the Afro - American musical tradition, but also to the sort of socio - cultural analysis we do so much of here at pomocon, which derives from we've learned from Tocqueville most of all.

That was not exactly intentional, but had everything to do with (white) disco fans simply permitting themselves to re-embrace the original raison d'etre of the whole Afro - American pop music phenomenon: good - time dancing.

The most significant development in recent years has been an increasing awareness among blacks not affiliated with the churches that religious institutions are as critical to the survival of Afro - Americans in the present as they have been in the past.

But the most significant development in recent years has been an increasing awareness among blacks not affiliated with the churches that religious institutions are as critical to the survival of Afro - Americans in the present as they have been in the past.

While it worked to demean and harass Negroes, Mormons, Catholics, Jews, and agnostics,... it also provided Afro - Americans with institutions of their own and bred nearly all black public leaders.

«True, it takes two to be unfaithful, and single Afro - American women who have affairs with married or cohabiting men, especially those with children, should do better,» he writes.

Of course the father - haunted Obama would gravitate toward father - haunted Ellison, and of course he would be interested, at a personal level, and with respect to future political ambitions, in Ellison's extended reflections on Afro - Americaness.

Now with Panama invaded, we Latin American Christians feel indignant when we hear the count on North American victims of an operation that was planned with evil intentions and hypocrisy, and yet nothing is said about the hundreds or thousands of Afro - Indo - Latin American lives... destroyed physically or psychologically by such an abominable adventure, which is a repetition of past crimes in Santo Domingo, Grenada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador... etc., in an endless list.

Nothing less than a cultural transition was under way, with protests led by the disenfranchised: the young, the Afro - American, the poor, the aged.